Who were the Golden Age/radio/movie serial Green Hornet and Kato?
What brought two total strangers together and caused them to become crimefighters, trusting each other in life-or-death situations?
Will This Story Come to an End Far Sooner Than We Expected?
Or is It Merely the First Chapter of a Long Saga?
Be Here
WEDNESDAY
to Find Out!
This never-reprinted story from NOW's Tales of the Green Hornet V2N1(1992) by writer James Van Hise, penciler Dell Barras, and inker John Stangeland, expands on the few bits and pieces the 1930s-1950s radio show and the two 1940s movie series presented about the "other Dynamic Duo" whose full origin was never presented in any media!
While the concept of Britt Reid saving Kato while vacationing in the Far East had been established, exactly how, where, and what/who Reid saved Kato from was only explained once, in the first movie serial, which stated Britt saved Kato from Japanese who attacked him because he was Korean.
(The whole question of Kato's ethnicity, which varied from Japanese to Fillipino to Korean to Chinese, is too long to get into here.)
NOW Comics had firmly established a multi-generational continuity of Green Hornets from the 1930s to the then-present 1990s, with both the Reid and Kato families involved, tying the various incarnations of the characters into one ongoing narrative...which also linked the Old West's Lone Ranger and Tonto, who were meant to tie-in to the contemporary Hornet and Kato by George Trendle who created both series!
While the concept of Britt Reid saving Kato while vacationing in the Far East had been established, exactly how, where, and what/who Reid saved Kato from was only explained once, in the first movie serial, which stated Britt saved Kato from Japanese who attacked him because he was Korean.
(The whole question of Kato's ethnicity, which varied from Japanese to Fillipino to Korean to Chinese, is too long to get into here.)
NOW Comics had firmly established a multi-generational continuity of Green Hornets from the 1930s to the then-present 1990s, with both the Reid and Kato families involved, tying the various incarnations of the characters into one ongoing narrative...which also linked the Old West's Lone Ranger and Tonto, who were meant to tie-in to the contemporary Hornet and Kato by George Trendle who created both series!
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